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Declines From Citigroup Inc (C) Drive Down Banking Industry

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Citigroup (
C) pushed the Banking industry lower today making it today's featured Banking laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day down 1%. By the end of trading, Citigroup fell 92 cents (-2%) to $45.74 on average volume. Throughout the day, 35.9 million shares of Citigroup exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 31.5 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $45.07-$46.21 after having opened the day at $46.15 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $46.66. Other companies within the Banking industry that declined today were:
Jacksonville Bancorp Inc (FL (
JAXB), down 12.4%,
Hampden Bancorp (
HBNK), down 7.9%,
Home Bancorp (
HBCP), down 7%, and
Credit Suisse (
UWTI), down 6.8%.

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Citigroup, Inc., a diversified financial services holding company, provides a range of financial products and services to consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions worldwide. The company operates through two segments, Citicorp and Citi Holdings. Citigroup has a market cap of $136.49 billion and is part of the financial sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 16.8, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 17.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 19 analysts that rate Citigroup a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and three rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Citigroup as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its increase in net income, attractive valuation levels, solid stock price performance and growth in earnings per share. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.